![]() ![]() Such as with Suite Français and the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, to name just a few. Just as an aside of sorts - just so interesting - and difficult - when an author passes before a book is complete. Her first novel, Cold Sassy Tree, made her a best-selling author at age 60. ![]() She turned to writing as a respite during treatment for cancer. She received a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and for ten years was on the Sunday magazine staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Olive Ann Burns (1924–1990) was born on a farm in Banks County, Georgia. ![]() The unfinished sequel, Leaving Cold Sassy, follows Will Tweedy into adulthood, as he grapples with the influences of the modern world on his cherished southern hometown. Brimming with characters who are wise, unimpeachably pious, and deliciously irreverent, it is a resplendent treasure. His grandfather, a recent widower, inspires a whirlwind of gossip in their small town when he marries a woman half his age. Burns is as good a writer about the South as you’re going to read for a long, long time.” - Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionĪ classic bestseller, Cold Sassy Tree is the story of Will Tweedy, a fourteen-year-old boy coming of age at the turn of the century in rural Georgia. ![]()
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